Let’s also be honest with this.
my faith is very secure. My faith is unwavering. My faith does not require me to try to change the genre of texts, or ignore reality. It’s not my faith that is unstable. It’s the faith of those that reject sound biblical hermeneutics in order to make the text match their concordistic paradigm. If evolution was proven true to y’all, it’s y’all whose faith seems like it would waver. I’ve stood at that doorway and came through it with a faith stronger than ever and perfectly intact.
Hermeneutics? A young child can understand Gen. 1 & 2. It's straight forward, put in simple everyday language.
Day 1 - And God said,
“Let there be light,”
>>The earth spinning around on its axis with light shining from one direction obviously separates the light from the darkness on one side.
God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
>> Children learn this simple concept eforw they go to school.
Day 2 - He made the atmosphere, separating the waters below from waters above. Oceans, lakes and dry land were formed.
Day 3 - All botanicals were created, finished. I would imagine trees with fruit on them already, water melons ready to be eaten. Three days later Adam and Even would likely get hungry. "What would like to eat honey? I don't know, I've never eaten anything, I was born yesterday you know. I know, my side ribs are kind of sore from that. Language? They communicated? God gave them language instantly. Other languages were created later on in Babylon and then evolved from there but make no mistake, they did 't wake up one day and utter ugg. They talked with God.
He told them to give names to the animals and botanicals. Adam was a genius, photographic memory, a perfect physical human. Eve was all the beauty we see in women today all in one, but perfect as well.
"Eve, I just named this fruit, I call it a peach, try it ... emmm."
Day 4 - The sun, moon and stars.
And btw, after every day, the familiar construct of a day is reiterated, just so you don't get confused and think this was an (epoch of time). "
And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day."
>> It should be within your reason to understand that the botanicals _ made on the 3rd day _ would need the sun made on the 4th day. They could not survive for epochs of time without it.
So you either have to discard the 1st book of the Bible or drastically distort it to fit the flawed TOE. But you already have, you called it myth. And you presume God allowed the first book about life, His creation to be a myth. And I guess to you, the Creator of the Universe is not capable of ensuring that His Word to mankind is delivered and passed down accurately and uncorrected. I have heard scholars came that at least the New Testament is 99.99 % pure with only about 400 words in question that do not effect any doctrine. I believe God protected His Love Letter to us throughout the ages. It is crucial that He did.
Day 5 - All living creatures (kinds) in the sea and lakes and birds in the sky were created. He programmed how to live get food and mate, to be fruitful and multiply. He designed each one uniquely, different as they contribute to and are part of His ecosystem - a finished system, that He claimed was good. If it wasn't complete, He would not have said that nor rested on the 7th day.
Day 6 - All living creatures, the animal kingdom on land and finally man were created.
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God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.'
Then God said, 'I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.' And it was so.
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.' "
There are no details of how He did it. That would require hundreds of volumes of information that we would not understand since the missing parts of the formula are beyond this tangible physical realm and in God's mind alone. But don't doubt that He did it this way and not through some long process. No, He was specific, an evening and morning meant ONE DAY. The sun rules the day and the moon the night.
A child can understand this, no hermeneutics needed here.